The Sobs of Autumn's Violins: A Novel of War and Love
Coral Springs, FL: Llumina Press, 2005. Trade paperback. More
Historical
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
London: Vintage Books, 2003. H.T. Willetts (tr.). Twentieth Printing. Paperback. With a foreword by Alexis Klimoff. THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED TRANSLATION OF SOLZHENITSYN'S SEARING DEBUT NOVEL The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the..... More
San Andreas
London: Collins, 1984. Paul Wright (jacket cover). First Edition. Hardcover. More
All That I Am
Melbourne: Penguin Books, 2012. Paperback. Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. When Hitler comes to..... More
Murder in Grub Street (A Sir John Fielding Mystery)
New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1996. Second Printing. Mass Market Paperback. The crime appeared as easily solved as it was wicked. A Grub Street printer, his family, and two apprentices brutally murdered in their sleep. A locked building. And at the scene, a raving mad poet brandishing a bloody axe..... More
The Commodore
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972. Paperback. More
Doubloons: The Story of Buried Treasure
New York: Pennant Books, 1954. First Pennant Books Edition. Paperback. Pennant Books no. P40 Collection of 9 stories. "Captain Kidd buried golden, jeweled loot, and so did Henry Morgan, Lafitte added his share in the Louisiana swamps. Then there are the drowned galleons, holding the salty, coral-grown treasures..... More
Barnaby Rudge
Edinburgh, Scotland: T. Nelson & Sons Ltd. Reprint. Hardcover. When Barnaby Rudge and his mother are harassed by a mysterious stranger, they flee to the capital, where they unwittingly become embroiled in an anti-Catholic protest that quickly becomes political. Swept up by events, Barnaby is imprisoned, rescued, betrayed, and sentenced..... More
Bleak House
London: Vintage Classics, 2012. Peter de Seve (cover illustration), Megan Wilson (cover design). First Vintage Classics Edition. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. 'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their..... More
A Death in the Small Hours
New York: Minotaur Books, 2012. Paperback. More
The Marrow of Tradition
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Werner Sollors (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment. Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutt’s..... More
The Marrow Thieves
Toronto, Canada: DCB/Cormorant Books Inc, 2017. Trade Paperback. Winner, 2017 Kirkus Prize (Young Readers' Literature) Winner, 2017 Governor General's Literary Award (Young People's Literature - Text) Winner, 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic Winner, 2018 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit..... More
Patterns of Childhood (formerly A Model Childhood)
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1980. Herb Johnson (book design). Trade Paperback. "What is past is not dead; it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers." Thus begins Christa Wolf's Patterns of Childhood, an account of the author's years growing up..... More
The Hero with a Thousand Eyes: A Historical Novel
Thimphu, Bhutan: The Centre for Bhutan Studies, 2011. Fifth Reprint. Paperback. Scarce. More
Marco Polo
London: Futura/Jade, 1982. Paperback. Based on the screenplay. More
The Evergreen Tea House: A Hong Kong Novel
Selangor: Gerakbudaya Enterprise, 2020. Teo Chung Hock (cover design). First Edition. Paperback. In the wake of the Hong Kong protests, memories of the colonial past are fading. This new edition of David T. K. Wong’s sweeping historical novel brings the past vividly to life. The Evergreen Tea House is..... More
The Good Terrorist
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her..... More
Arch of Triumph
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1998. Paperback. Translated from the German by Walter Sorell and Denver Lindley. More
White Gold : The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. Softcover. The true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his..... More
Uncle Tom's Cabin
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. Elizabeth Ammons (ed.). Third Edition. Paperback. “Elizabeth Ammons has produced a first-rate Norton Critical Edition with Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” —Mason I. Lowance, Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst “I will definitely use this edition again. The critical materials at the end of..... More
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Frances Smith Foster, Richard Yarborough (eds.). Second Edition. Paperback. “Accompanied by historical photographs, public statements, and correspondence, and by a well-selected sampling of modern criticism, this Norton Critical Edition will stimulate many classroom discussions in years to come.” —Werner Sollors, Harvard University... More
The Mighty Wave 巨浪
Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2011. Tan Jing Quee, Loh Miaw Gong, Hong Lysa (trs.). Trade Paperback. A major novel about the anti-colonial mass movement in Singapore in the 1950s which started with the Chinese middle school students assembling on 13 May 1954 at the pavements of..... More
Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Robert S. Levine, Cindy Weinstein (eds.). First Edition. Paperback. When Pierre was published one year after Moby-Dick, expectations were high. Readers expected—and Melville delivered—adventure, humor, and brilliance. Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Melville’s own..... More
Anthony Adverse in America
New York: Dell Publishing, 1949. Umberto Romano (cover). Paperback. Dell Mapback no. 285 Adaptation of the original novel Anthony Adverse published by Rinehart & Company. More
The Mirror and the Light
London: 4th Estate, 2020. Julian Humphries (jacket design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of..... More
